Valencia Basket faces a “final” for a spot in the semifinals vs. Herbalife Gran Canaria

Valencia Basket defends the first place in group B of the Liga Endesa Final Round on the last round of the Group Phase in a direct confrontation vs. Herbalife Gran Canaria (Friday 26, 18:30h, Fonteta, Movistar Deportes) in the that the winner will automatically obtain his ticket for the semifinals on Sunday.

 

The Taronja squad accounts are simple. If wins, will pass as first in the group, he will qualify for his seventh semifinal in nine seasons and will face KIROLBET Baskonia in the next round. If loses, will need Real Madrid not to win in the last game of the day to pass as second in the group and face Barça in the semifinals.

 

In front they will have a rival that historically has been good against at home, although tomorrow the Taronja squad will be a visitor at the Fonteta and will wear blue jersey. But the Canarian team has won in two of its last three visits to the Fonteta and has beaten Valencia Basket in the two previous matches this season.

 

Guillem Vives remains sidelined (fracture in the first finger of his left hand) and the participation of Maurice Ndour continues to be very complicated due to discomfort in his left knee that has not allowed him to debut yet in this tournament.

 

Rosters

HERBALIFE GRAN CANARIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

5

Stan Okoye

Nigeria

Alero

1.98

8

Manu Lecomte

Bélgica

Base

1.80

9

Ioannis Bourousis

Grecia

Pívot

2.10

10

Omar Cook

EEUU/MNT

Base

1.86

14

John Shurna

EEUU/LIT

Ala-Pívot

2.04

17

Fabio Santana

España

Base

1.88

21

Oriol Paulí

España

Alero

2.01

22

Xavi Rabaseda

España

Alero

1.96

23

Beqa Burjanadze

Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.01

24

Matt Costello

EEUU

Pívot

2.08

33

Javier Beirán

España

Alero

2.00

34

Demonte Harper

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

 

Fotis Katsikaris

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Quino Colom

España

Base

1.88

2

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

3

Jordan Loyd

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

12

Brock Motum

Australia/Lituania

Ala-pívot

2.08

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

21

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.01

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

 

Questionable

 

 

 

5

Maurice Ndour

Senegal

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Injured list

 

 

 

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

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